I Literally Cannot Function Properly If I Don't Eat My Little Daily Bread Like A Medieval Peasant

i literally cannot function properly if i don't eat my little daily bread like a medieval peasant

im watching buffy the vampire slayer rn, episode 17 of season 2 and honestly im sick of the storyline with angel and janna/jenny calendar. i mean, it's not like jenny had a choice to do what she did (she didn't even do anything to anyone in fact). angel literally tortured her people, what was she supposed to do ? i get that buffy is devastated by what happened and im sorry for her but i just don't think it's fair to be mad at jenny like that. (i know that buffy is a 17yo whose life is complicated and has literally the weight of the world on her shoulders+ a heartbreak but still, it's really not fair)

period pain make me want to kill myself

season 3 ep 3 and faith just arrived and i cannot believe xander i swear he's my least favorite character ever

im a sue sylvester apologist first and foremost

There any way to make the Master like . . . good? Interesting? Anything other then a knockoff Graf Orlok?

Buffy's main arc in S1 is her struggling with growing up - accepting her destiny and therefore her metaphorical adulthood. This is why all the villains are in a state of arrested development - the Master stuck in place like a cork in a bottle, the Anointed held forever as a child. They represent, as vampires do in general at this point in the show, the danger of Buffy never growing up, never accepting adulthood and the transformation that comes with it.

Villains in this show are always metaphorical representations of some struggle Buffy is facing. The problem is that in this pre-Spike&Drusilla era, they are only metaphorical representations, and not, y'know, actual characters. Which is why the Master feels so flat and uninspired compared to the villains of later seasons.

I think the most interesting angle would have been to really dig into the Anointed One and the Master's relationship to him. Perhaps developing a father/son dynamic between them. This would have added humanity to both of them, and also highlighted the parallels between Buffy/Colin and Giles/the Master. The Chosen/Anointed with a Watcher/Master who, in a quasi-paternal way, guides then to a fatal destiny. The Master/Giles parallels are hinted at, but digging into them a little more could have been really interesting.